The plan is to free up 300 beds across Ontario by the end of summer and to increase that number to 1,000 freed up beds within six months
The issues surrounding moving elderly or chronic care patients out of hospital care into a long-term care home is one that Ontario has been struggling with in recent years.
"There are many solutions. First of all, many elderly people would safely stay at home, if we had a strong home-care system," said Gélinas, who is also the MPP for Nickel Belt. The idea to move chronic patients to long-term care, according to the province, is to free up hospital beds being used often by mainly elderly patients whose doctors say they no longer need to occupy an acute care hospital bed but who are too frail to live unassisted at home.The legislation would allow the province to move that patient to a "temporary" LTC home while the patient is waiting for a bed space in a home of their preference.
"We are introducing legislation that, if passed, will support patients whose doctors have said they no longer need hospital treatment and should instead be placed in a long-term care home, while they wait for their preferred home," said the provincial plan.
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